StackOverflow primarily exposes their addictive game-playing, not their communication skills. The rep/badge bullshit encourages inane responses, and the wiki aspects cover the tracks.
It seems to be more about the detailed and correct answer voted up the most that you find from searching something on Google, for that it works really well, not being part of the community there I don't care about that other 10 half assed replies for badges/points
They have a very visible group of users that post a no-assed answer as fast as possible and start doing the same google searches the asker did to pad out their answer. Their bullshit answer will be at the top initially, so they'll have the means to cannibalize the knowledgeable users who follow.
